By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2016 12:00 pm EST The core concept of The Departed, which was a remake of the Hong Kong crime drama Infernal Affairs, was a detective going undercover to incriminate a crime ring, all while the police department was already being infiltrated by someone with ties to the criminals. That same concept will be used for the show, but it won’t be set in Boston, and it won’t be about bringing down a section of the Irish mob....
‘The Exorcist’ Director William Friedkin To Appear On ‘The Simpsons’ Halloween Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 16, 2017 3:30 pm EST Friedkin won an Academy Award for directing 1971’s The French Connection before getting nominated two years for The Exorcist. His 1973 tale of demonic possession is considered one of the most influential films of all time, setting the groundwork for many modern horror movies that followed it. With Friedkin lending his voice to the “Treehouse of Horror” episode, it’s likely that the chapter he stars in will reference one of the film’s many iconic moments....
‘Thoroughbreds’ Clip: Learn The Technique Behind Fake Tears By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 24, 2018 12:00 pm EST In Thoroughbreds, two childhood friends reunite, and promptly bring out each other’s destructive tendencies. The black comedy stars indie film stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke. Below, a Thoroughbreds clip introduces you to “the technique.” Thoroughbreds has been a long time coming to the big screen. The dark comedy has been making the festival circuit rounds for a while now, having originally premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival....
Alan Silvestri Replacing John Williams On Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ By Ethan Anderton/July 8, 2017 11:00 am EST With the exception of The Color Purple and Bridge of Spies, composer John Williams has been responsible for scoring every single feature film that Steven Spielberg has directed. However, we’ll be adding one more movie to that list in the near future. Though John Williams was previously attached to provide the score for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s sci-fi adventure Ready Player One, he will now be replaced by Back to the Future composer Alan Silvestri....
By Ethan Anderton/July 28, 2018 4:23 pm EST Payne and McKay have been writing partners since meeting on the high school debate team more than two decades ago. In addition to the aforementioned scripts in development, the writers were also behind a 2017 Blacklist drama script called Escape, which is currently set upwith Academy Award-nominated producer Mike DeLuca. “We have closed a deal with a writing team, Payne and McKay who come out of the world of Star Trek....
Another ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ International Trailer Heats Up The Rebel Action By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 11, 2016 7:57 am EST Yesterday, a new international Rogue One A Star Wars Story trailer came out of nowhere, and it was chock full of new footage for us to closely scrutinize. Now another one has surfaced, and while this one doesn’t have nearly as much new footage, and is much more similar to the previous domestic trailer for Rogue One, there are some incredible action shots that we haven’t seen before, both from the forthcoming space battle and the ground war on Scarif....
Bill Skarsgard Says ‘It Chapter 2’ Will Be A ‘Very Different Experience’ By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2018 1:00 pm EST It: Chapter 2 is gearing up to shoot this summer, and Pennywise himself just provided an update on the project. In a new interview, actor Bill Skarsgard said that when it comes to the horror sequel, audiences can expect “a very different experience” than the first film.Andy Muschietti starts shooting It: Chapter 2 in July, and the hype for the sequel to his 2017 horror-hit is already through the roof....
Cool Stuff: Hero Complex Gallery’s NYCC Art For ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘Lord Of The Rings’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 13, 2016 6:00 am EST New York Comic-Con has been finished for a few days now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t pretend like you were there by picking up some of the artwork from Hero Complex Gallery that was unveiled at the convention. Right now the collectible art gallery has a bunch of new pieces straight from NYCC featuring Ghostbusters, Lord of the Rings, The Professional, Misery, Harry Potter, RoboCop, How to Train Your Dragon, The Fifth Element, Pulp Fiction and more....
Interview: ‘Rocky Horror’ Producer Lou Adler On Audience Participation, Cursing, And Richard O’Brien By Fred Topel/Oct. 20, 2016 3:30 pm EST When Glee did their Rocky Horror episode, they changed “Transexual, Transylvania” [in the song “Sweet Transvestite”] to “sensational Transylvania.” Can you say transexual? Yup. Are there any lyric changes you have to make? We took out fuck. Mindfuck. What do you say instead? We tried two or three things and we’re not sure which one will stay in....
Jared Leto Is Also “A Little Confused” About These Joker Movies By Ben Pearson/Sept. 7, 2017 3:00 pm EST It’s been just over two weeks since word came out that Warner Bros. and DC Films were developing an origin movie for Batman’s most iconic villain, The Joker. But it feels like a lifetime ago because of how many updates and other announcements have followed (including an entirely separate movie featuring that character)....
Marvel Teases ‘Inhumans’ Trailer With Brief Glimpses Of New Footage By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 27, 2017 8:00 am EST The full trailer for Marvel’s The Inhumans won’t be released until Thursday, but Marvel treated us to flashes of new footage in a teaser for the trailer today. There’s not much footage here (about 11 seconds), but it is our first look at this long-gestating project. Let’s hope the rest of the series lives up to the show’s high aspirations....
Shailene Woodley Isn’t Going To Be In That ‘Ascendant’ TV Movie By Jacob Hall/Feb. 9, 2017 4:30 pm EST The Divergent movies were never as big (or as good) as the Hunger Games series, but those first two films held onto those dystopian young adult coattails and became moderate successes at the box office, certainly justifying the existence of the third movie, Allegiant. Unfortunately, the third adaptation of Veronica Roth’s popular book series was a box office flop, making roughly $100 million less at the international box office than its predecessors....
Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow & DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow Crossover Trailer: Superheroes Battle Aliens By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 25, 2016 12:00 pm EST Next week brings an unprecedented television event to The CW. All of the DC Comics television shows on the broadcast network will be crossing over into each other. Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow will all share one overarching story that sees aliens called Dominators, spread out over four nights next week....
Two New ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Vehicles Unveiled, And The First Order Gets More Firepower By Ben Pearson/Aug. 23, 2017 1:51 pm EST Not long ago, we learned that Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s petulant villain Kylo Ren will have a new ride in the upcoming film in the form of a ship called the TIE Silencer. Today, we’ve learned about two more brand new vehicles that will appear in writer/director Rian Johnson’s upcoming sequel – and they’ll both be utilized by The First Order....
Valiant’s Plus-Sized Superhero ‘Faith’ Is Getting Her Own Movie By Ethan Anderton/June 29, 2018 7:30 am EST Faith is the first prominent plus-sized female superhero to grace the pages of Valiant Comics, and Sony Pictures has ordered a live-action adaptation of her comic book for the big screen. If you haven’t heard of Faith, find out more below. Now Deadline reports a Faith superhero movie will be adapted by American Gods writer Maria Melnik, joining the other Valiant Comics movies in the works like Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong and Harbinger....
Watch This: ‘Doctor B’ - A Short Documentary About A Professional Yo-Yoer By David Chen/June 19, 2017 9:30 am EST After directing The Primary Instinct in 2014, I wanted to shift my focus to smaller scale projects. While The Primary Instinct was a tiny film to begin with, it still required many months of planning and over $50,000 to produce. So I tried finding stories from sources all around me, that I could film myself with a very small crew (if any)....
When Will Ben Affleck’s ‘Batman’ Movie Be Released? By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 26, 2016 1:30 pm EST A Batman solo movie was never formally announced. We first heard rumblings that Ben Affleck was co-writing and might direct a solo adventure featuring his Justice League character. Then Warner Bros executives casually mentioned the project was happening at CinemaCon. But even when I was on the set of Justice League this past June, Affleck was non-committal about the project, telling us that he isn’t ready to make a movie “until there’s a script that I think is good....
‘Black Panther’ Inspires Disney To Fund A STEM Center In Oakland By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 26, 2018 1:00 pm EST Black Panther has broken record after box office record, which means that Wakanda is rich in more than just Vibranium. Now, Disney is putting that $700 million global box office haul to good use. Echoing a touching final scene at the end of Black Panther, Disney is donating $1 million to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to help expand its youth STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs....
‘Bokeh’ Trailer: Maika Monroe And Matt O’Leary Are The Last People On Earth By Jacob Hall/Jan. 31, 2017 8:30 am EST Bokeh is built around a captivating, albeit familiar, concept: what if you woke up one day and you were seemingly the last person on the planet? And what if you were on vacation at the time of this dramatic event, leaving you alone (perhaps forever) in a place that is wholly unfamiliar to you?...
By Alex Riviello/April 27, 2017 11:05 pm EST You can’t keep a good Firestarter down. After the opening night screening at the Overlook Film Festival tonight, Akiva Goldsman and Jason Blum announced that they would be teaming up once again to bring Stephen King’s classic pyrokinetic tale back to the big screen. Hit the jump to learn more about the Firestarter remake. They were in attendance to show off their latest collaboration, Stephanie, which was directed by Goldman and produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum....
